Arion (manga)

Arion (Japanese: アリオン) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, published in Tokuma Shoten's seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Ryū from May 1979 to November 1984, with its chapters collected in five tankōbon volumes. A young man kidnapped by Hades as a child and raised to believe that his mother was blinded by Zeus and that killing the ruler of Mount Olympus will cure her.

Arion
Fifth tankōbon volume cover, published in 1985.
アリオン
Genre	Adventure[1] Epic[1][2]
Manga
Written by	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Published by	Tokuma Shoten
Magazine	Monthly Comic Ryū
Original run	May 20, 1979 – November 1, 1984
Volumes	5
Anime film
Neo Heroic Fantasia: Arion
Directed by	Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
Produced by	Hideo Ogata Tetsuhisa Yamada Hironori Nakagawa
Written by	Chiaki Kawamata (composition) Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Akiko Tanaka (screenplay)
Music by	Joe Hisaishi
Studio	Sunrise
Licensed by	NA: Discotek Media
Released	March 15, 1986
Runtime	118 minutes

An anime feature film adaptation, directed by Yasuhiko and co-written with Akiko Tanaka, was released in 1986 under the title Neo Heroic Fantasia: Arion^[a],^[3] and has been licensed by Discotek Media.^[2][4]

Cast

• Shigeru Nakahara - Arion
• Miki Takahashi - Resphoina
• Mayumi Tanaka - Seneca
• Hirotaka Suzuoki - Apollo
• Masako Katsuki - Athena
• Chikao Ōtsuka - Hades
• Kiyoshi Kobayashi - Poseidon
• Masanobu Ōkubo - Zeus
• Ichirō Nagai - Lycaon
• Reiko Mutō - Demeter
• Hideyuki Tanaka - Prometheus
• Kazue Komiya - Arion (young)
• Ryōko Kinomiya - Gaia
• Toku Nishio - Gido
• Daisuke Gōri - Heracles
• Bin Shimada - Ares
• Takako Ōta - Pio
• Kōhei Miyauchi - Ethos
• Hisako Kyōda - Ethos' Wife
• Tomomichi Nishimura - Priest

Publication

Written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, Arion was serialized in Tokuma Shoten's seinen manga magazine Monthly Comic Ryū from May 20, 1979,^[5][6] to November 1, 1984.^[7][8] Tokuma Shoten collected its chapters in five tankōbon volumes, published from November 10, 1980,^[9] to January 10, 1985.^[10]

The manga has been licensed in France by publisher naBan,^[11] and in Taiwan by Tong Li Publishing.^[12]

Notes

1. Japanese: ネオ・ヒロイック・ファンタジア　アリオン

Further reading

• "Arion Vol.1 : Critiques". Manga News (in French). July 27, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
• "Critique Manga Arion #1". Manga Sanctuary (in French). August 28, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2024.
• "Critique Manga Arion #2". Manga Sanctuary (in French). October 12, 2023. Retrieved July 11, 2024.